Segment Switch Guide

Switching from Segment

While Segment has standardized real-time, vendor-neutral customer event collection, no platform is a perfect fit for everyone. At Astronomer, we’ve provided an alternative for those searching for greater flexibility, improved security and event-based pricing.

Switching from Segment to Astronomer is very simple. Follow the four easy steps below to get up and running with our platform!

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Step 3: Configure your integrations via the Astronomer dashboard.

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Step 4: Check the live debugger to make sure your data is flowing.

Segment | Astronomer Merge Guidelines

You’ve made the switch from Segment to Astronomer Clickstream and now you want all of your data in one place (including the data from your old Segment account). Merging is an easy process - we’ll walk you through it.

Initial Column Audit

To start, we’d recommend that you take a few minutes to review your existing Segment tables with the tables created by Astronomer’s Clickstream platform. Create a spreadsheet with tables from both platforms side by side to easily identify datatype conflicts.

Datatype Conflicts

If you do identify some datatype conflicts, it’s likely that your destination column will be able to accommodate the previous datatype (e.g. varchar(256) or varchar(512) or timestamp with timezone. Check out the following example:

Non-Existent Destination Columns

If you have some columns that don’t exist in the destination tables, they’ll need to either be dropped from the source (Segment) tables or added manually to the destination tables.